“These types of agreements are highly unusual maybe — even unheard of — in recovered paper markets, but we believe they're going to be instrumental in ensuring the long-term health of U.S. recycled paper companies,” said Steve Silver, President and CEO of FutureMark Paper Group.
FutureMark
Paper Group pioneers a new practice for buying recovered waste paper through
multiyear purchase agreements with stable cost
Using
such agreements, the company now secures more than 50% of the recovered paper
needed to operate its two recycled paper-making facilities. Waste Management is latest firm with whom FutureMark has signed long-term purchase agreements; provides Waste Management with a stable outlet for its clients' recovered fiber, as well as a predictable revenue stream.
FutureMark's long-term, cost-stabilized purchase agreements for waste paper provide the company with supply assurance and cost predictability; insulates the company from extreme volatility in waste paper cost, which in the past has fluctuated by more than 300% over a two-year stretch.
FutureMark asserts long-term waste paper purchase agreements such as the ones it is pioneering will prove instrumental in helping U.S. recycled paper companies protect their long-term financial health.